Basketball inventor's historic document sold at Massachusetts auction

Basketball inventor's historic document sold at Massachusetts auction

SPRINGFIELD, Mass. (WWLP) - A document signed by Dr. James Naismith, the creator of basketball in Springfield, has been sold for $17,840 at an auction. The document, a biographical questionnaire from 1895, was sold by RR Auction and contains one of Naismith's earliest self-proclamations of creating the sport. "Man, without him, we would not have one of the most popular sports in the world," said Alex Pedro, a curator at the Basketball Hall of Fa…